I'm trying to get back into the swing of posting, and I'm trying to figure out what to post on. I've got a whole slew of things bouncing around in my head, and I figured I'd offer you, that is, anyone who is still following my blog after the long dry spell, a chance to weigh in on what I should write about first.
I could write reviews of programming books for a few years. I read a lot, especially old stuff, much of which is under $5 used these days. Do you want to hear about my favorite books? What subjects? Compilers and interpreters? Lisp? Writing good code? Designing programs? Old programming languages?
I have a hypothesis that programming salaries (and all technical salaries) are going to go up again, and a few links to news stories that I might be able to weave into a cogent argument. Any interest?
I spend a lot of time looking into my crystal ball wondering what will happen if/when the relentless increase in Mhz stops. Do you care what I see?
I love strange and forgotten corners in the world of programming. How do you implement recursive functions in an interpreter that's purely functional? How do you optimize tail calls in a language with dynamic scope like Logo? How do you handle functional arguments and functional values in a dynamically scoped language like Lisp 1.5? What if you want to use shallow binding? I've never had any use for any of these tricks, but I still find them endlessly fascinating. Am I the only one?
I can complain about some common excuses that people use to make stupid decisions.
I can talk about my own opinions on how to write good code.
I can talk about some of my favorite themes that keep appearing over and over in the history of programming.
I can do a series of posts about Microsoft. History, practices, ways that I see them preparing for the future, strengths and weaknesses, predictions, etc.
I can talk about the good old days online (before the web), and all the things that are worse now. I could talk about the things that are better, but I'm not sure there's a point. You probably know them already.
I could go on, but that's enough to get started.
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
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All of it sounds great, honestly. To start...
> what will happen if/when the relentless increase in Mhz stops
... sounds interesting.
> themes that keep appearing over and over in the history of programming
I think this would be great, esp. since it seems you know a lot more history than the rest of us.
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